Surviving damage/limiting damage from a nuclear explosion by wearing white

The brilliant flash of light can burn out the retinas of the eyes if looked at. The thermal pulses can burn flesh and set flammables on fire. Thus, if you see a brilliant flash of light — maybe 25 miles away, immediately turn away from it. White clothes reflect light and this can protect and/or reduce flash burns where thermal radiation is a hazard. As a crisis worsens, and you work outdoors, wear white shirts and pants, hat and gloves. Or have the gloves on your person to quickly retrieve and put on as you dart for cover.
The intense flash and thermal radiation is of such intensity, if one is next to a concrete wall or some other rivetment, as shown in the video of Hiroshima, as they are instantly vaporized, the speed of light burns their shadow into the wall.

sorry if i misunderstood you, but are you telling me that if i chuck on a white jumper, white trousers, and a white hood to protect my head, i could survive a nuclear explosion?

Originally Posted by endus

A thread about how hard it is being a white dude is not really a reasonable topic.

Originally Posted by Gabriel

You are assuming Cybran actually reads the articles he links.
I suspect he is actually some Soviet algorithm gone rogue, transmitting from some forgotten bunker, responding to keywords by googling them and adding "+bad" to the search query, and then just copy/pasting anything it comes across.

gamma rays wont stop due to wearing white. radiation from atomic explosion will mostly stop by having 15 centimeters lead or a 1 meter thick wall between you and them.
and this wont enable you to survive the heat of the blast wave, if u are near enough, but it comes later. so u live longer.
next stap is ionic radiation from radioactive isotopes, like plutonium / iod / cesium. u eat this nice apple from the tree in the garden after surviving? well u intake some plutonium and start burning from the inside. your bodys organs will slowly disentegrate due to the energy set free from radioactive decay in your blood system / organs. u live longer. but not much.

If you are closeby (100 km from the blast area) the fallout will likely kill within a few days if not weeks, regardless if you wear white eskimo-suit or not.
But it also depends on what kind of payload is used of course. The one that fits in a large backpack on the ground isn't as effective as those who are launched with a rocket and detonated 600 meters above ground.

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Just because white doesn't have a color (if I can put it like that), doesn't mean you won't get affected by the radiation. If you put a small piece of white plastic out in the sun, it will get hot because of the radiation the sun emits. Just like you will get radiation sickness even if you're wearing white. It's true that the color white "reflects" light because it doesn't absorb any frequencies that would show a color, but it will still be hit by the light which will cause heat.

The only way to limit radiation exposure is to be fully covered in a VERY thick layer of lead. Even this is subject to the distance you are from the blast, not to mention the blast wave itself or any reprecusions the radiation blast will have on organic tissue. If a nuclear weapon goes off there might be up to several hundred years before that area is safe again, depending on the nuclear material used of course.

If you're close enough to see it with your own eyes, you're close enough to get radiation poisoning. Either way, you'll die a horrific death.
I think the only good way to survive a nuclear explosion is by simply not being close to it.

White clothes reflect light and this can protect and/or reduce flash burns where thermal radiation is a hazard.

The point is the "reduce" part. It may be true, it may reduce the impace by a factor of 0.000001% or so.

The main problem with a nuclear explosion is not the light, anyway, but the wide array of all sorts of electromagnetic waves. Light is only one of them. Radiation and heat are some of the others. They will do much more damage and they certainly wont bother if you wear a white shirt or a black one.

White clothes reflect light and this can protect and/or reduce flash burns where thermal radiation is a hazard. As a crisis worsens, and you work outdoors, wear white shirts and pants, hat and gloves. Or have the gloves on your person to quickly retrieve and put on as you dart for cover.
The intense flash and thermal radiation is of such intensity, if one is next to a concrete wall or some other rivetment, as shown in the video of Hiroshima, as they are instantly vaporized, the speed of light burns their shadow into the wall.

If you are far enough away from a nuclear detonation that your main concern is flash burns, white is not going to do anything noticeable/practical for you.

Also the 'shadow' of people left behind on walls afterwards has nothing to do with flash burns (flash burns will not vaporize) or "the speed of light." The heat (thermal radiation) that vaporizes a person also burns the concrete wall, but the burn on the wall behind the person is slightly reduced because some energy was exhausted vaporizing the person. Less heat energy reaches the wall compared to where there wasn't someone standing. Making it more of an inverse rather then a true shadow.

This is by far the most ridiculous crack-pot pseudo-scientific bullshit claim I've read in ages.

I have to agree, this even tops Glenn Beck's "space lizards" crap.

Wearing white won't save you from radiation. It won't save you from the heatwave. It won't save you from the shockwave(air or ground). If a nuke goes off anywhere nearby you are DEAD. The best thing you can do if you see a bomb coming down is get as close to impact as possible. Dying quickly in the fireball is 10000000000000000000x better than dying slowly due to radiation poisoning.

Originally Posted by Masark

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If you are far enough away from a nuclear detonation that your main concern is flash burns, white is not going to do anything noticeable/practical for you.

Also the 'shadow' of people left behind on walls afterwards has nothing to do with flash burns or "the speed of light." The heat (thermal radiation) that vaporizes a person also burns the concrete wall, but the burn on the wall behind the person is slightly deduced because some energy was exhausted vaporizing the person. Making it more of an inverse rather then a true shadow.

How is that an inverse? Shadows are areas of reduced light caused by an object blocking light.

An inverse shadow would be if it got focused somehow.

As to the OP, does this mean that black people are kinda fucked in terms of their face/neck/hands?